Every year, the Bureau of Land Management
removes thousands of mustangs, feral descendants of the domesticated
horses imported by the Spanish conquistadors, from public lands in the
United States. It’s a controversial program, but not the central subject
of Wild Horse, Wild Ride; instead, the film focuses on a program to encourage more people to adopt some of these horses. That program is the Extreme Mustang
Makeover Challenge, which sounds like a cheesy reality show but is
actually a program in which 100 people each are assigned one of the
mustangs, which they then try to tame over a three-month period. The
culmination of the program is a competition in Fort Worth, Texas, after
which time the horses will be offered at auction. Although the Fort Worth competition provides the narrative spine of this
documentary, Directors Alex Dawson and Greg Gricus are at least as
interested in the process as the goal, and in the lives of the trainers
as in the progress of the horses...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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